Django-mkadmin

Modifies the stock Django-Administration interface to fit my ideas a little bit better.

Add django-mkadmin to your requirements file. Currently there is no release, therefore you can add the following line to install the latest version:

-e git+git://github.com/matthiask/django-mkadmin.git#egg=mkadmin-dev

Add mkadmin to INSTALLED_APPS. The entry has to be before django.contrib.admin because mkadmin overrides admin/base_site.html and admin/index.html.

Add django.core.context_processors.request to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.

Add an entry to your URLconf:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
from django.contrib import admin
from mkadmin.dashboard import dashboard

admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns(
    '',
    url(r'^admin/mkadmin/', include(dashboard.urls)),
    url(r'^admin/' include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Configuration of the Create menu:

MKADMIN_CREATE = [
    'blog.Post',
    # 'blog',  # Take all models from the blog app, does not work yet.
    'chet.Album',
]

Dashboard configuration:

MKADMIN_DASHBOARD = [
    ('mkadmin.dashboard.AtAGlance', {
        'models': ['blog.Post', 'chet.Album', 'chet.Photo'],
    }),
    ('mkadmin.dashboard.AllApps', {
    }),
    ('mkadmin.dashboard.RecentActions', {
    }),
    ('mkadmin.dashboard.QuickDraft', {
    }),
    ('mkadmin.dashboard.Feed', {
        'url': 'http://www.feinheit.ch/news/feed/',
    }),
]